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LOT 1831
Chinese Style Bronze Lion-Headed Sceptre
20TH CENTURY AD.
20 5/8 in. (2.12 kg total, 52.5 cm high including stand).
The round-section shank with low-relief decorative panel of seated Buddhas to the top and two grotesque figures below; the finial formed as stylised tiger with open jaws; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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